Take a break What’s the word?

Pop the kettle on and take a moment to relax with our fun prize puzzles this month!

ACROSS:

1 Temporarily stop (7) 5 Bean-shaped organs on either side of the spine (7) 9 Sunday dinner? (5) 10 Small thin sausage (9) 11 Type of tree (3) 12 Similar (5) 13 Bohemian Rhapsody band (5) 14 School subject (5) 16 Stitch created by knitting every row (6) 18 Try to persuade or hurry someone (6) 19 Rent (5) 22 Unpleasant (5) 24 Puss in ---, pantomime character (5) 26 Take legal action (3) 27 Decorate with patterns of sewing stitches (9) 29 Jewelled headwear (5) 30 Baby’s room (7) 31 Asp (7)

DOWN

1 Form of humour (7) 2 Long thin variety of pasta (9) 3 Surplus (5) 4 Dishonest behaviour (6) 5 Insert right needle into a stitch as if to knit (1-4) 6 Pair (3) 7 Delete (5) 8 Gripping tool (7) 13 Small partridge-like bird whose eggs are a delicacy (5) 15 Exclusive London hotel (5) 17 Interpret (9) 18 Work cafe (7) 20 Stylish (7) 21 Traditional English form of folk dancing (6) 23 Not drunk? (5) 24 Friend (5) 25 Indian stringed instrument (5) 28 Poem (3)